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This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of employment and child care decisions of women after birth in order …'s cognitive ability. I use data from the NLSY to estimate the model. Results indicate that the effects of maternal employment and …
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We formalize and estimate the dynamic marginal efficiency cost of redistribution (MECR) in the spirit of Okun’s “leaky bucket” to compare the MECR of an income-contingent childcare subsidy program and of the income-contingent tax and transfer schedule. We set up a dynamic structural model...
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employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … family and female employment in Mongolia in 2016. We examine the availability of childcare, social norms and attitudes … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …
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employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … employment in Mongolia in 2016. We examine the availability of childcare, social norms and attitudes towards women, as well as … household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the probability of female employment …
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The share of single mothers is higher in East Germany than in West Germany. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel … of couples with minor children. Women in East Germany have both a higher probability of out-of-partnership birth and a … East and West Germany. The differences in single motherhood appear to be rather driven by cultural and economic factors. …
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This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction between second earner wage differences, variation in the price of child care and...
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(working at least 16 hours per week) and full-time employment (working at least 30 hours per week), employment transitions … supply and earnings. Mothers married to low-income men showed larger responses in employment, especially if they had younger …
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In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children, the secondary earner's labor supply and welfare....
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positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy and Spain with the lowest fertility rates also have the lowest female …
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positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy and Spain with the lowest fertility rates also have the lowest female …
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